BDD Job Trends in Reading

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Reading requiring BDD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 44 58
Rank change year-on-year +8 +14 +45
Permanent jobs citing BDD 13 32 44
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 2.22% 4.42% 4.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.80% 4.98% 4.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 19
10th Percentile - £60,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £61,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -24.24% +11.86%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £83,750
90th Percentile - - £85,000
Berkshire median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% -7.41% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

BDD falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 465 643 981
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 79.35% 88.81% 91.43%
Number of salaries quoted 292 270 641
10th Percentile £31,250 £38,725 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £50,000 £38,130
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £64,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.06% +16.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £69,210 £83,438 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £112,500 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -6.78%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing BDD relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Reading.

BDD job vacancy trend in Reading

BDD
Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing BDD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing BDD

BDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 11 (84.62%) Amazon EC2
1 11 (84.62%) Amazon ECS
1 11 (84.62%) Amazon EKS
1 11 (84.62%) AWS
1 11 (84.62%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (84.62%) PostgreSQL
1 11 (84.62%) RDBMS
1 11 (84.62%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (84.62%) Jenkins
1 11 (84.62%) JMeter
1 11 (84.62%) JUnit
1 11 (84.62%) Mockito
2 2 (15.38%) Selenium
General
1 11 (84.62%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (84.62%) Developer
1 11 (84.62%) Full-Stack Developer
1 11 (84.62%) Full-Stack Java Developer
1 11 (84.62%) Java Developer
1 11 (84.62%) Mid-Level Java Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Automation Tester
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Automation Tester
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Tester
3 1 (7.69%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Test Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (84.62%) ActiveMQ
1 11 (84.62%) Apache Camel
1 11 (84.62%) Hibernate
1 11 (84.62%) HTML
1 11 (84.62%) jQuery
1 11 (84.62%) JSON
1 11 (84.62%) REST
1 11 (84.62%) Spring
1 11 (84.62%) Spring Boot
1 11 (84.62%) Web Services
1 11 (84.62%) WireMock
1 11 (84.62%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (84.62%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Agile
1 13 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 13 (100.00%) TDD
2 11 (84.62%) Full-Stack Development
2 11 (84.62%) Microservices
2 11 (84.62%) Process Management
2 11 (84.62%) SDLC
2 11 (84.62%) Workflow
3 2 (15.38%) ATDD
3 2 (15.38%) Coaching
3 2 (15.38%) Manual Testing
3 2 (15.38%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (15.38%) Open Source
3 2 (15.38%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
4 1 (7.69%) Clean Code
4 1 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (7.69%) Exploratory Testing
4 1 (7.69%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Java
2 11 (84.62%) JavaScript
2 11 (84.62%) Python
2 11 (84.62%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
1 2 (15.38%) QA
System Software
1 11 (84.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (84.62%) Kibana
1 11 (84.62%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) Dynatrace
1 11 (84.62%) Splunk